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He likely got it from a Big Bill Broonzy recording "Rockin' Chair Blues" from 1940 using the phrase "rock me, baby". The phrase "like a wagon wheel" is used in the 1939 Curtis Jones song "Roll Me Mama" that includes the lines "Now roll me over, just like I'm a wagon wheel" and "just like I ain't got no bone". He re-recorded it in 1963 as "Roll ...
Notable lyrics: "So, rock me mama like a wagon wheel. Rock me mama any way you feel. Hey...mama rock me." ... All of the instrumental interludes provide the perfect time to rest your vocal chords ...
B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby" is based on the 1951 song "Rockin' and Rollin'" by Lil' Son Jackson. [1] King's lyrics are nearly identical to Jackson's, although instrumentally the songs are different: "Rockin' and Rollin'" is a solo piece, with Jackson's vocal and guitar accompaniment, whereas "Rock Me Baby" is an ensemble piece.
Both "Rock Me, Mama" and "Sweet Amarillo" were eventually completed and recorded by the Nashville band Old Crow Medicine Show, who credited Bob Dylan as co-writer. "Wagon Wheel" was released in 2004 (and subsequently covered by many other artists, including Darius Rucker) and "Sweet Amarillo" was released in 2014. [10]
Fuqua first brought home a Bob Dylan bootleg from a family trip to London containing a rough outtake called "Rock Me, Mama", [n 3] passing it to Secor. [i 3] Not "so much a song as a sketch," Secor would later say, "crudely recorded featuring most prominently a stomping boot, the candy-coated chorus and a mumbled verse that was hard to make out ...
From rock 'n' roll hair bands to the debut of Whitney Houston and the launch of a little-known network named MTV, there was no shortage of history-making tunes, stars and movements that would pave ...
Cat Power‘s live song-by-song recreation of Bob Dylan‘s famed May 17, 1966 concert at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall will be released Nov. 10 through Domino Records. The contemporary ...
From October 2010 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when James A. Skinner joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 9.9 percent return on your investment, compared to a 24.4 percent return from the S&P 500.